COULD YOU EXPLAIN ABOUT BEING ALERT WITHOUT TENSION?
I FEEL THE NEED FOR EFFORT TO STAY IN THE PRESENT. AND THIS EFFORT MAKES IT HARD TO RELAX COMPLETELY. LETTING GO OFTEN SEEMS TO BRING BACK THE PAST OR FUTURE. COULD YOU EXPLAIN ABOUT BEING ALERT WITHOUT TENSION?
The idea to be in the present will not allow you to relax. In fact, if you relax, you will be in the present. In the beginning, if you relax, the past will rush towards you. Many things that you have suppressed, many things that you have never allowed to come up before your consciousness, many things that you have been avoiding – they will rush.
When you relax, the doors are open. These things always wanted to come before your consciousness but you never allowed them. Now that you are not forcing them, THEY will rush. But this is going to be temporary.
Many dreams about the future that you have also been suppressing will come. There will be a chaos for a time being; you have to relax and watch the chaos. There should be no anxiety about it – it is natural. It is as if a room has been closed for many days; then you open it and bad smells escape.
But if you keep it open, fresh air will be flowing and the bad smells will be gone. Your unconsciousness has accumulated a very bad smell. It is like a closed house, and it has become a junkyard.
Don’t TRY to be in the present. Rather, relax, so that the past and the future are both there – and they will go by themselves. You need not be worried; simply watch. Don’t do a single thing, because if you do something you will again repress. Don’t do a single thing. Just watch, as if the birds are flying in the sky and you are watching – lying down on the grass. The birds flying in the sky, the clouds moving, slowly, lazily. Thoughts are also like clouds; desires are also like birds. Be a watcher. The problem arises because you become a doer.
The clouds are moving in the outer sky; thoughts are moving in the inner sky. Let them be. Just relax. Let them be. Whenever you want to see, see. If you don’t want to see, then doze. But don’t do anything. Soon, the sky becomes clear. If you don’t do anything, many things start happening. And the first thing is: all repressions that are released flow away from you. Soon the day comes when the sky is absolutely clear. Then you will be in the present.
Don’t try to be in the present; rather, just be in a let-go. And when you are in a let-go don’t make any conditions what should happen and what should not happen. Otherwise you cannot be in a let-go. A let-go can only be unconditional. You simply relax; now whatsoever happens, happens. And if nothing happens, that too is good.
A let-go is a let-go! Now you don’t have any idea what should happen. If the past rushes in, it rushes in. If the future comes in, it comes in. You are not even worried about being in the present, because that will not allow you to be in a let-go. You simply relax.
But relaxation has become almost impossible because you have so many conditions: this should not be, this should be; this thought is bad, that thought is good; this is from the devil, this is from God. And you are continuously choosing and manipulating and fighting and arranging. You cannot be in a let-go.
Drop all morality. Drop all evaluation. Nothing is good. Nothing is bad. Everything is whatsoever it is. Relax. Suddenly, one day, the present arises in its deep radiance. Then there are no clouds and no thoughts and no desires. And to be in the present is to enter the door of existence.
🌸Osho- The True Sage🌸
CHAPTER 8. THE LIGHT BEHIND THE WINDOW – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The idea to be in the present will not allow you to relax. In fact, if you relax, you will be in the present. In the beginning, if you relax, the past will rush towards you. Many things that you have suppressed, many things that you have never allowed to come up before your consciousness, many things that you have been avoiding – they will rush.
When you relax, the doors are open. These things always wanted to come before your consciousness but you never allowed them. Now that you are not forcing them, THEY will rush. But this is going to be temporary.
Many dreams about the future that you have also been suppressing will come. There will be a chaos for a time being; you have to relax and watch the chaos. There should be no anxiety about it – it is natural. It is as if a room has been closed for many days; then you open it and bad smells escape.
But if you keep it open, fresh air will be flowing and the bad smells will be gone. Your unconsciousness has accumulated a very bad smell. It is like a closed house, and it has become a junkyard.
Don’t TRY to be in the present. Rather, relax, so that the past and the future are both there – and they will go by themselves. You need not be worried; simply watch. Don’t do a single thing, because if you do something you will again repress. Don’t do a single thing. Just watch, as if the birds are flying in the sky and you are watching – lying down on the grass. The birds flying in the sky, the clouds moving, slowly, lazily. Thoughts are also like clouds; desires are also like birds. Be a watcher. The problem arises because you become a doer.
The clouds are moving in the outer sky; thoughts are moving in the inner sky. Let them be. Just relax. Let them be. Whenever you want to see, see. If you don’t want to see, then doze. But don’t do anything. Soon, the sky becomes clear. If you don’t do anything, many things start happening. And the first thing is: all repressions that are released flow away from you. Soon the day comes when the sky is absolutely clear. Then you will be in the present.
Don’t try to be in the present; rather, just be in a let-go. And when you are in a let-go don’t make any conditions what should happen and what should not happen. Otherwise you cannot be in a let-go. A let-go can only be unconditional. You simply relax; now whatsoever happens, happens. And if nothing happens, that too is good.
A let-go is a let-go! Now you don’t have any idea what should happen. If the past rushes in, it rushes in. If the future comes in, it comes in. You are not even worried about being in the present, because that will not allow you to be in a let-go. You simply relax.
But relaxation has become almost impossible because you have so many conditions: this should not be, this should be; this thought is bad, that thought is good; this is from the devil, this is from God. And you are continuously choosing and manipulating and fighting and arranging. You cannot be in a let-go.
Drop all morality. Drop all evaluation. Nothing is good. Nothing is bad. Everything is whatsoever it is. Relax. Suddenly, one day, the present arises in its deep radiance. Then there are no clouds and no thoughts and no desires. And to be in the present is to enter the door of existence.
🌸Osho- The True Sage🌸
CHAPTER 8. THE LIGHT BEHIND THE WINDOW – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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